For Owners Of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
Beginning in 2016, according to one source, Ring provided its Ukraine-based research and development team virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service that contained every video created by every Ring camera around the world.

January 10, 2019 at 11:57AM
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Regular Joe Figures Out How Crazy Easy It Is To Hack His Co-Workers’ Webcams
You’re going to want to put some tape on that little lens of yours stat.

January 10, 2019 at 07:04AM
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So You Automated Your Coworkers Out Of A Job
Automation is too often presented as a faceless, monolithic phenomenon — but it’s a human finger that ultimately pulls the trigger.

January 9, 2019 at 08:15PM
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How Cartographers For The US Military Inadvertently Created A House Of Horrors In South Africa
The visitors started coming in 2013. The first one who came and refused to leave until he was let inside was a private investigator named Roderick. He was looking for an abducted girl, and he was convinced she was in the house.

January 9, 2019 at 01:27PM
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Ignore 5G, For Now
While the next-generation cellular standard holds the promise of blazing-fast speeds for consumers and businesses alike, early real-world demonstrations of 5G’s capabilities have been rare.

January 9, 2019 at 11:03AM
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Bendgate: Why some iPad Pros are bent, and what Apple is doing about it
Apple releases an official statement on reports that some iPad Pros have come bent right out of the box.

January 9, 2019 at 09:38AM
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CES Strips Sex Toy Of Award After Allegedly Deeming It ‘Immoral’
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is currently showing off the biggest new innovations in tech — but apparently draws the line this year at a particular instrument of pleasure.

January 8, 2019 at 05:54PM
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Girl Wearing VR Headset Accidentally Drops A Digital Grenade And Mistakenly Makes A Run For It
The empathetic pain is strong.

January 8, 2019 at 12:21PM
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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone
T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to posses it, letting them track most phones in the country.

January 8, 2019 at 12:19PM
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We Need An ‘AI Sidekick’ To Fight Malicious AI
“Now that we realize our brains can be hacked, we need an antivirus for the brain.” Those were the words of Yuval Noah Harari, famous historian and outspoken critic of Silicon Valley.

January 8, 2019 at 08:06AM
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